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Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC)

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Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) is an approach to quantum computation that uses quantum error-correcting codes and fault-tolerant protocols to perform arbitrarily long computations reliably on noisy physical qubits with bounded error rates. Expanded Explanation 1. Technical Function and Core Characteristics FTQC encodes logical qubits into multiple physical qubits and applies error-correcting codes to detect and correct noise-induced errors during computation and storage. It relies on

Fault-tolerant quantum computing is a framework for running long quantum computations reliably on noisy hardware by encoding logical qubits into many physical qubits with quantum error correction, providing bounded error rates suited to high-assurance enterprise and cryptographic workloads.

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